Child and Toy and more art by Clifford Thompson

My visual work during the pandemic, as in Child and Toy, seems to involve giving in to my feelings, at least some of the time. The painting represents an acknowledgment of what is happening, but is also a reflection of how I often feel generally: that we (we are the blue toy man) are running in place while at the mercy of forces that show no obvious signs of being a grand design, that may as well have come from, well, the mind of a child.